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we created an environment to create jobs. i want to create that environment for the entire state and have a government of cooperation, not a government of being an adverse rate for our citizens and our small businesses. >> mr. dalton, your response. >> he talks about his wins. in the last election, he lost charlotte and mecklenburg county. for nine straight years while he was mayor, charlotte was the highest tax city in the state and the highest tax city when he left. he took in 19% pay raise. taxes went up. there is no wonder that the people did not voted for him because of some of those things. >> i would like to continue that conversation. i have talked to voters out there who say they are fed up with congress and the state legislature because they do not think you can get anything done. you are not willing to compromise because of partisan politics. can each give me a specific example of somewhere in your years of public life where you have tossed aside partisan politics and gotten something done? >> i helped a city becom
we created an environment to create jobs. i want to create that environment for the entire state and have a government of cooperation, not a government of being an adverse rate for our citizens and our small businesses. >> mr. dalton, your response. >> he talks about his wins. in the last election, he lost charlotte and mecklenburg county. for nine straight years while he was mayor, charlotte was the highest tax city in the state and the highest tax city when he left. he took in 19%...
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it is about you is best fit to lead, to create an environment where we can see more economic activity and jobs. that is what this is about. it is very clear the two visions. i want to thank you for hosting us tonight. [applause] >>: 2 thank everybody for being here. this is the first time in 10 years that the candicandidates e debated. thank you for sponsoring this. he did not hear what happened prior to the normal course of low taxes, too much regulation. that is all he talks about. this is much too painful. the people that are struggling to get their jobs, the people i had talked to, the people that are struggling to make it are the people who lost their jobs because of the wild speculation which your deregulation caused. the people putting in their mortgages, all the things people have suffered from since 1999. these are all things we have not mentioned tonight. you hear lower taxes. everybody knows this. we are in a war. how irresponsible it is to say lower regulation, lower taxes, and to have his people in afghanistan. i think he can overcome the washington speak, then i want you
it is about you is best fit to lead, to create an environment where we can see more economic activity and jobs. that is what this is about. it is very clear the two visions. i want to thank you for hosting us tonight. [applause] >>: 2 thank everybody for being here. this is the first time in 10 years that the candicandidates e debated. thank you for sponsoring this. he did not hear what happened prior to the normal course of low taxes, too much regulation. that is all he talks about. this...
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. >> i think tomorrow it would be great to die in to -- to dive into the protection of our environments. we will not dive into it to the level we should, and romney will not talk about how he is such a green governor in massachusetts, which definitely is a foot lot. >> tomorrow with the domestic policy debate. >> i was going to international affairs, but it is domestic policy. they are not going to discuss how we can get african- americans more jobs. they will talk in general about jobs, since we need jobs more, we should have more attention on its. >> in a sad remembrance of the 400th murder in chicago over the last couple days, we will not talk about the tie between youth unemployment numbers and how it has impacted the dropout rates and the crimes we're seeing in these urban environments. >> i would like to see an honest conversation about collective bargaining. >> i like that one. , we talk about that new small business economy, but african- americans, our economy is not a mom and pop, it is a mom or pop. we need to make sure it is addressing the mom and or pops our communities. , h
. >> i think tomorrow it would be great to die in to -- to dive into the protection of our environments. we will not dive into it to the level we should, and romney will not talk about how he is such a green governor in massachusetts, which definitely is a foot lot. >> tomorrow with the domestic policy debate. >> i was going to international affairs, but it is domestic policy. they are not going to discuss how we can get african- americans more jobs. they will talk in general...
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no one here wants to harm the environment. what we want to make sure that we do is in a safe, thoughtful manner access the natural resources. lower utility bills from people around the nation, opportunities for a four year university when they come back from the university. 20 years ago we had 37 operating coal mines, but today we do not have 10. we see what is happening, where the unemployment rate is 4%. we know that we could bring down unemployment. we know that we can access resources in a safe manner. i want to make sure that every person in southern illinois who wants to work there, who wants to be in the coal mines, has the opportunity to be there and can provide for their families. [applause] >> paul bradshaw is next. >> of course i am against frakking. it takes vast amounts of clean, drinkable water, ponds it full of chemicals, and fractures underneath the ground and hit the rocks. you talk a lot about creating jobs with it, but it will not create jobs for people in southern illinois. they will move people who know ho
no one here wants to harm the environment. what we want to make sure that we do is in a safe, thoughtful manner access the natural resources. lower utility bills from people around the nation, opportunities for a four year university when they come back from the university. 20 years ago we had 37 operating coal mines, but today we do not have 10. we see what is happening, where the unemployment rate is 4%. we know that we could bring down unemployment. we know that we can access resources in a...
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you could look at the international trade environment and wonder about that. this is the answer to your question, to me, and i think john and i would agree, a world in which the u.s. is still strong but all of these institutions are eroding is not a world i want to live in. the u.s. really does have an interest in trying its best to shore up these institutions. >> bob is coming my way. this is great. [laughter] just a couple quick points. my thesis is not that these institutions are independent. they are infused with power. they are instruments of power. they are used to signal limits on power. power is never divorced from institutions. in that regard, i argue the u.s. has been so brilliant on the world stage for half a century or longer because it has tied its power to these institutions that has both allowed it to make its power and more durable and expensive but also make it more limited and less based on the indiscriminate arbitrary use of power in the more literal sense. there is an argument about how it can allow for a powerful state to be more influenti
you could look at the international trade environment and wonder about that. this is the answer to your question, to me, and i think john and i would agree, a world in which the u.s. is still strong but all of these institutions are eroding is not a world i want to live in. the u.s. really does have an interest in trying its best to shore up these institutions. >> bob is coming my way. this is great. [laughter] just a couple quick points. my thesis is not that these institutions are...
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i believe circumstances around america and the world create an environment where whoever is in authority and power have to act or pay the price. >> i am optimistic. i do not think the american people will settle for anything less than success, and they are going to drive this debate. as business leaders, our job is to insure the business community is involved in the discussion. if they are, politicians will do the right thing. >> to you think american politicians will do what is needed? >> you will not find pessimist'' up here. we would not do what we do for a living. the problems we face can be solved. americans can be counted on to do the right thing after they have exhausted every other possibility. we would get it done. >> you can never go wrong ending on churchill. thank you for joining me. [applause] >> thank you all for joining us for conversations and power today, and a big thank-you to a keen observer on washington politics and the economy, as well who as a great moderator. and thank you to our panelists. we really appreciate you all being here. i would also like to again thank
i believe circumstances around america and the world create an environment where whoever is in authority and power have to act or pay the price. >> i am optimistic. i do not think the american people will settle for anything less than success, and they are going to drive this debate. as business leaders, our job is to insure the business community is involved in the discussion. if they are, politicians will do the right thing. >> to you think american politicians will do what is...
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those all have an impact, because it is the environment. how do people feel when there are millions of dollars in advertisement spending in the state of montana for example on the senate race. it affects the house race and other races. that is one of the unintended consequences, but certainly a consequence of super pak spending like this. when the campaigns, and i work for far more campaigns than independent expenditures, when we deal with campaigns what we always talk about is when is crossroads going to come up? one is crossroads' going to be there? half of our planning and discussion is about what the outside entities are going to do. we use to just plan on the other side in terms of campaign. we used to have pure corn to do, they are board to do. we are now planning for a multi- level chess game, which makes the job more fun. to go there are a number of them. there are supertax that cropped up in senate races. -- >> there are a number of them. biggest outside spender in house races is the democratic house majority pack. >> i believe tod
those all have an impact, because it is the environment. how do people feel when there are millions of dollars in advertisement spending in the state of montana for example on the senate race. it affects the house race and other races. that is one of the unintended consequences, but certainly a consequence of super pak spending like this. when the campaigns, and i work for far more campaigns than independent expenditures, when we deal with campaigns what we always talk about is when is...